[Lancaster] Install Fest (was: Software Freedom Day)

[Tony Ayre]

Hi,

I disagree - the brown feel of Ubuntu is a nice, warm look and puts users at
ease a lot more than the blue of windows. (From showing it to them during
the course of repairing their computers).

ISS don't use Fedora on anything but a few servers, the library does
though... The support that people might get depends if those that use Fedora
(such as myself at work) are still there.

Support for Linux is being talked about though, and there are intentions to
provide a series of instructions
(or possibly a wiki) on how to set up ResNet (the residential network) on
the common distros.

Just my 2 pence.

Cheers
Tony 

-----Original Message-----
From: lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of mp
Sent: 01 September 2005 20:02
To: Martyn Welch
Cc: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Lancaster] Install Fest (was: Software Freedom Day)

hi,

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:39 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Also on the LiveCD for Ubuntu. Worth having them, someone might feel 
> uncomfortable about completely re-installing the PC with Linux,

Concerning both straight-up-Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Live, it may be worth thinking
of Kubuntu:
http://www.kubuntu.org/~amu/kubuntu-5.04.5-i386-live.iso
(http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hoary/)
This is *not* an attempt to get into religiouos flames about desktop
superiority, but simply because Ubuntu uses a rather grim shite-brown
version of Gnome, while Kubuntu has a more-like-windows-looking blue and
conventional desktop that is less likely to scare strangers to the free
software universe. The obvious alternative, if you have got Ubuntu from
shipit already is, of course:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

>  but I would
> be satisfied to some degree by installing OpenOffice, FireFox, 
> Thunderbird and possibly the GIMP.

Another thing to think of when it comes to campus use (students/staff) is
that ISS uses Fedora (since they started with Red Hat) and therefore offer
(very limited) unofficially a bit of support ....

-mp